Carl Öhman
Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor at Department of Government; Faculty
- E-mail:
- carl.ohman@statsvet.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Carl Öhman earned his PhD in 2020 from the University of Oxford. His research focuses broadly on the politics and ethics of AI and has been covered by media outlets such as New York Times, BBC and TIME Magazine. In 2020 he was named the UK’s #1 early career researcher in the arts and humanities by Scopus. His book The Afterlife of Data, was listed by Nature, The Economist and The Guardian as one of 2024's top 10 books and has been translated into 8 languages, incl. Chinese, Arabic and Spanish.
Publications
Selection of publications
What if Facebook goes down?: Ethical and legal considerations for the demise of big tech
Part of Internet Policy Review, 2020
Are the dead taking over Facebook?: A Big Data approach to the future of death online
Part of Big Data and Society, 2019
Introducing the pervert’s dilemma: A contribution to the critique of Deepfake Pornography
Part of Ethics and Information Technology, p. 133-140, 2019
An ethical framework for the digital afterlife industry
Part of Nature Human Bahavior, p. 318-320, 2018
Recent publications
The Quantum Panopticon: A Theory of Surveillance for the Quantum Era
Part of Minds and Machines, 2025
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Part of Minds and Machines, 2025
- DOI for How ChatGPT Changed the Media's Narratives on AI: A Semi-automated Narrative Analysis Through Frame Semantics
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We are Building Gods: AI as the Anthropomorphised Authority of the Past
Part of Minds and Machines, 2024
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The identification game: deepfakes and the epistemic limits of identity
Part of Synthese, 2022
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The case for a digital world heritage label
Part of Information & Culture, p. 82-95, 2022
All publications
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The Quantum Panopticon: A Theory of Surveillance for the Quantum Era
Part of Minds and Machines, 2025
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Part of Minds and Machines, 2025
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We are Building Gods: AI as the Anthropomorphised Authority of the Past
Part of Minds and Machines, 2024
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The identification game: deepfakes and the epistemic limits of identity
Part of Synthese, 2022
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The case for a digital world heritage label
Part of Information & Culture, p. 82-95, 2022
What if Facebook goes down?: Ethical and legal considerations for the demise of big tech
Part of Internet Policy Review, 2020
A theory of temporal telepresence: Reconsidering the digital time collapse
Part of Time & Society, p. 1061-1081, 2020
Prayer-Bots and Religious Worship on Twitter: A Call for a Wider Research Agenda
Part of Minds and Machines, p. 331-338, 2019
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Are the dead taking over Facebook?: A Big Data approach to the future of death online
Part of Big Data and Society, 2019
Introducing the pervert’s dilemma: A contribution to the critique of Deepfake Pornography
Part of Ethics and Information Technology, p. 133-140, 2019
An ethical framework for the digital afterlife industry
Part of Nature Human Bahavior, p. 318-320, 2018
Part of Minds and Machines, p. 639-662, 2017
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